Sandeep Kumar

About Sandeep Kumar

AI Technical Manager with 13+ years of experience leading the design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise AI, Machine Learning, and Generative AI solutions. Specialized in enterprise AI architecture, LLM platforms, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), model fine-tuning, and Agentic AI systems, delivering scalable, production-grade AI solutions on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Experienced in balancing technical leadership with people and delivery management driving architecture decisions, guiding engineering teams, contributing to solution design, and managing end-to-end delivery from POC to production. Proven expertise in mentoring teams, performance management, hiring, resource planning, stakeholder engagement, and translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions. Core Strengths AI / GenAI Architecture Responsible AI, Safety Guardrails & Model Evaluation Architecture Reviews & Technical Design Oversight Team Management & Mentoring Enterprise LLM Platforms, RAG & Agentic AI Systems Multi-Cloud AI Architecture (AWS / Azure / GCP) End-to-End AI Program Delivery Hiring, Appraisals & Resource Planning Currently part of the AI Centre of Excellence, leading GenAI platform architecture, managing AI teams, driving enterprise AI adoption initiatives, and delivering strategic AI transformation programs

Experience

1. Tech Manager Generative Ai Data Science Ai-ml Ai Centre of Excellence

   Tech Mahindra

   Sep 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Working within the AI Centre of Excellence, leading architecture and delivery of enterprise AI and Generative AI solutions for Life Sciences.Pmanaging and mentoring 5-6 AI engineers and data scientists across projectsKey Contributions• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Defined architecture for scalable AI/GenAI platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and business objectives. • Cross-Project Team Leadership: Provided technical leadership and people management for 5-6 AI engineers and data scientists assigned across multiple AI initiatives, including mentoring, technical guidance, task prioritization, capability development, and performance feedback. • LLM Evaluation & RAG Architecture: Led evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) for enterprise use cases and designed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures to enhance AI applications with domain-specific knowledge retrieval. • Developed Strategic AI Use Cases: o Built AI-driven Biological Age Estimation models leveraging biomarkers and health data for personalized healthcare insights. o Designed RAG-Based Document Q&A Systems for intelligent enterprise knowledge retrieval. o Implemented AI-Powered Document Summarization solutions for life sciences documentation. o Designed Agentic AI Systems integrating relational databases and enterprise knowledge sources for autonomous reasoning and workflow execution. o Developed AI Agents & Conversational Assistants to automate enterprise knowledge retrieval and workflow interactions. • POC to Production Leadership: Directed multiple AI Proof of Concepts (POCs), validating technical feasibility and business value, with successful transition of key solutions into production. • Responsible AI: Established Responsible AI practices including LLM evaluation frameworks, hallucination mitigation, safety guardrails, and prompt safety controls for enterprise GenAI solutions.

Education

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  MTech - Data Science and Engineering, Data Science and Engineering

• SRM IST Chennai

  Master of Computer Applications, Computer Science

• Indian Institute of Management Mumbai

  Business through AI-Powered Supply Chains

  2022 — 2022

• Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

  Bachelor's degree, Computer application

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Perl Automation
• Pl/Sql
• Etl
• Hive
• Unix
• Data Modeling
• Data Warehousing
• Java
• Teradata
• Test Data
• Microsoft Excel
• Xml
• Dwbi
• Data Analysis
• Test Planning
• Oracle
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Scrum
• Rational Performance Tester
• Informatica
• Testing
• Uft
• Teradata Sql
• Hp Quality Center
• Jira
• Build Automation
• Test Automation
• Databases
• Etl Tools
• Test Management
• Teradata Data Warehouse
• Sql
• Quality Center
• Test Cases
• Perl
• Hadoop
• User Acceptance Testing
• Big Data
• Etl Testing